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Being Human we all have our little idiosyncrasies, our pet hates, the things we like, all the little things that are not necessarily bad things but make us different, interesting, liked or unliked.
When it comes to swinging, what are yours ? what makes you think "nice profile would love to know more" or "waste of time not worth looking into ?
The reasons are not so important, just what little things make you instantly think "no chance"
There are the usual more prominent ones like no pictures, pics of just the female, too far away, too big, too short, too blonde, too slim, not enough information on profile, age and so on, but what else is there for you ?

Some I can think of for us include,
the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.
huge list of friends but no SHREP for meeting
Professionals, yes it puts us off, people with a degree or BA, Queens Commission or other qualifications that put them into the Professional category are, to be honest, a little over our social standing, we are a simple couple, not very scholared and down to earth in our ways and chat, we don't know anything about fine wines and rarely eat the finest foods, we don't go to the theatre or opera, enjoy trance not classical music, now I know that is labelling people to the Nth degree but most Professional people, do enjoy these things.
People whose profiles say "My partner would love to see me ....... " we like people who do whatever they do for themselves.
People whose profiles say "we don't take swinging seriously" personally we take it very seriously, if we are inviting someone into our home and possibly our bed then we give it a lot of thought before we say yes, and we don't want to arrange meets with people who couldn't care less about the meet and think "sod it" on the night or who have no respect because it's just a bit of fun, of course it has to be fun but fun with consideration.
Reading back it makes us wonder how we ever get a meet ...... giggles, but we do ;)
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Being Human we all have our little idiosyncrasies, our pet hates, the things we like, all the little things that are not necessarily bad things but make us different, interesting, liked or unliked.
When it comes to swinging, what are yours ? what makes you think "nice profile would love to know more" or "waste of time not worth looking into ?
The reasons are not so important, just what little things make you instantly think "no chance"
There are the usual more prominent ones like no pictures, pics of just the female, too far away, too big, too short, too blonde, too slim, not enough information on profile, age and so on, but what else is there for you ?
Some I can think of for us include,
the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.
huge list of friends but no SHREP for meeting
Professionals, yes it puts us off, people with a degree or BA, Queens Commission or other qualifications that put them into the Professional category are, to be honest, a little over our social standing, we are a simple couple, not very scholared and down to earth in our ways and chat, we don't know anything about fine wines and rarely eat the finest foods, we don't go to the theatre or opera, enjoy trance not classical music, now I know that is labelling people to the Nth degree but most Professional people, do enjoy these things.
People whose profiles say "My partner would love to see me ....... " we like people who do whatever they do for themselves.
People whose profiles say "we don't take swinging seriously" personally we take it very seriously, if we are inviting someone into our home and possibly our bed then we give it a lot of thought before we say yes, and we don't want to arrange meets with people who couldn't care less about the meet and think "sod it" on the night or who have no respect because it's just a bit of fun, of course it has to be fun but fun with consideration.
Reading back it makes us wonder how we ever get a meet ...... giggles, but we do ;)[

That would be me then lol
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the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.

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the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.

And us wink
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the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.

And us wink
And us smile
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Actually, not just 'the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets' but the rest of our profile too rotflmao
well its not us - we have shrep - whatever that is??
but we don't think that havng or not having shrep helps at all - the whole shrep system is really nonsense
however - if some think it's a good measure of people then good luck to them - we don't agree
PS - we're a proffesional couple and suitably qualified to call ourselves such should we wish to - BUT we don't. We think of ourselves as simple working class folk because that's our heritage and our state of mind - and we don't care if that labels us - because we're proud of it.
Still don't quite get SHREP but then we've never found it a draw back to be quite honest.
Most of the other stuff on your off putting list seems very similar to what irks us, Especially the Proffesional, profeshional, proffessional bit. Especially, as so said, prufeshunals should be able to f*cking spell PROFESSIONAL when it appears on their profile blurb. Anyway what the hell is a so called 'professional' nowadays? Do you get a certificate saying "Professional doctor or professional school teacher" No I don't think you do. More a thing about being competent in specific set of skills nowadays I'd of thought.
Another thing that puts us off is profiles that say things such as ***NO SINGLE MEN WE ARE NOT INTERESTED AND DO NOT WANT YOU DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOU ARE WASTING OUR TIME***(Lifted from an actual profile) and going on about it in that fashion.
Or other profiles that list two dozen no's no's to meeting people. OK can understand having preferences but some go on and on and on. For goodness sake it's not as though your looking at marrying your next meet and your bringing them home to meet your parent. For these people I reckon it would be easier for them to take their genitals in their hands, look in a mirror and rub furiously until satisfied because it seems that the person your looking at in the mirror is your ideal meet.
I could go on...Oh, I already did.
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Still don't quite get SHREP but then we've never found it a draw back to be quite honest.
Most of the other stuff on your off putting list seems very similar to what irks us, Especially the Proffesional, profeshional, proffessional bit. Especially, as so said, prufeshunals should be able to f*cking spell PROFESSIONAL when it appears on their profile blurb. Anyway what the hell is a so called 'professional' nowadays? Do you get a certificate saying "Professional doctor or professional school teacher" No I don't think you do. More a thing about being competent in specific set of skills nowadays I'd of thought.
Another thing that puts us off is profiles that say things such as ***NO SINGLE MEN WE ARE NOT INTERESTED AND DO NOT WANT YOU DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOU ARE WASTING OUR TIME***(Lifted from an actual profile) and going on about it in that fashion.
Or other profiles that list two dozen no's no's to meeting people. OK can understand having preferences but some go on and on and on. For goodness sake it's not as though your looking at marrying your next meet and your bringing them home to meet your parent. For these people I reckon it would be easier for them to take their genitals in their hands, look in a mirror and rub furiously until satisfied because it seems that the person your looking at in the mirror is your ideal meet.
I could go on...Oh, I already did.

On the SHREP thing, I would agree that on this site it is not widely used whereas on other sites verifications are considered by many to be important (including us) that said many people see loads of verifications as an off put. so whilst we don't "write people off" when they don't have SHREP it does make us think that we need to check more that they are genuine about meeting"
I wasn't really asking about what people thought about our own idiosyncrasies I was asking about thier own if indeed they have them.
In this day and age professional people are what they were when people first stated getting qualifications, there haven't really been any new proffessions added ie
Having a degree (making Doctors, Barristers etc)
People who have the Queens Commission (Senior Police Officers, Fire Officers, HM Forces Officers)
Holding a BA in medicine or Law etc
We understand that our list of do's n don'ts will put some people off, but they are things we are willing to do and they are things we will not do, so personally we prefer to be upfront and honest about such things rather than waste peoples time, but each to thier own always. What we don't understand is why we get e-mails abusing us for our profile, saying it is too big or too many photos, if they don't like it they should ignore us not send us abusive emails.
It is NOT working in a posh office, owning your own business, being a boss in a big company etc, my window cleaner does a very professional job of cleaning my windows and my refuse collectors always leave my bins tidy and empty, a professional piece of work but that does not qualify them to call themselves Professionals because this is a term given to people for certain qualifications or positions. I think that those people have earned that title just as much and more than many Lords and Dames and those with Knighthoods
I just thought of another one lol friends requests, the first paragraph of our profile asks people NOT to send them unless we have met in person.
We get 2 or 3 requests a day.
So that puts us off because we cannot understand why they would want to be our friend if they don't even want to know anything about us that can be read in our profile.
We do like to keep track of people we chat too or are interested in meeting but we add them to our favourites list which gives us the same benefits of keeping thier profile to the fore without actually showing on our own profile.
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the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.
huge list of friends but no SHREP for meeting

There is a school of thought that would probably tell you that people who've been on the site a long time but don't use SHREP to share their conquests to all and sundry are exactly the kind of people youshould be talking to? If you value discretion that is.
I don't use SHREP and I never will. It's nonsense Mids. Long term members who've run the gauntlet as far as being accepted on here know it's bullshit. I have some concerns actually all of a sudden as to whether you're clued up enough to understand that? Reason being I go on what you have to say for yourself, not what someone I don't know from Adam has to say about you.
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When it comes to swinging, what are yours ? what makes you think "nice profile would love to know more" or "waste of time not worth looking into ?

Profiles that resemble War and Peace.
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Profiles that resemble War and Peace.

rotflmao :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Ouch! Properly cutting. ;)
N x
p.s. Mids? If you're asking what really turns me off, FFS will you stop bolding everything and pick a chuffing colour? Little tip: default font in black's a good one. Your posts are an affront to the eyes before we even get to the words.
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Being Human we all have our little idiosyncrasies, our pet hates, the things we like, all the little things that are not necessarily bad things but make us different, interesting, liked or unliked.
When it comes to swinging, what are yours ? what makes you think "nice profile would love to know more" or "waste of time not worth looking into ?
The reasons are not so important, just what little things make you instantly think "no chance"
There are the usual more prominent ones like no pictures, pics of just the female, too far away, too big, too short, too blonde, too slim, not enough information on profile, age and so on, but what else is there for you ?
Some I can think of for us include,
the length of time on site with no SHREP for real meets.
huge list of friends but no SHREP for meeting
Professionals, yes it puts us off, people with a degree or BA, Queens Commission or other qualifications that put them into the Professional category are, to be honest, a little over our social standing, we are a simple couple, not very scholared and down to earth in our ways and chat, we don't know anything about fine wines and rarely eat the finest foods, we don't go to the theatre or opera, enjoy trance not classical music, now I know that is labelling people to the Nth degree but most Professional people, do enjoy these things.
People whose profiles say "My partner would love to see me ....... " we like people who do whatever they do for themselves.
People whose profiles say "we don't take swinging seriously" personally we take it very seriously, if we are inviting someone into our home and possibly our bed then we give it a lot of thought before we say yes, and we don't want to arrange meets with people who couldn't care less about the meet and think "sod it" on the night or who have no respect because it's just a bit of fun, of course it has to be fun but fun with consideration.
Reading back it makes us wonder how we ever get a meet ...... giggles, but we do ;)

fantastic way to put things guys xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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p.s. Mids? If you're asking what really turns me off, FFS will you stop bolding everything and pick a chuffing colour? Little tip: default font in black's a good one. Your posts are an affront to the eyes before we even get to the words.

:thumbup: I think that's been pointed out to Mids before. His posts used to be in italics too.
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Professionals, yes it puts us off

Define professional.
In the occupation that puts the food on my table, I try to be as professional as possible, wherever required. The bottom line is that if I approached my duties in an amateur fashion, people would die, simple as that.
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In the occupation that puts the food on my table, ... if I approached my duties in an amateur fashion, people would die, simple as that.

Yer a chef aren't yer. lol
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In the occupation that puts the food on my table, ... if I approached my duties in an amateur fashion, people would die, simple as that.

Yer a chef aren't yer. lol
You want fries with that?
Hmmm. Where to start?
Felt kind of upset that a Profesional firefighter and nurse can't call ourselves professional, so we looked it up.
Lets try the good old Oxford English Dictionary
Professional:
1. Following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
2. Of, pertaining to, or connected with a profession: professional studies.
3. Appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity.
4. Engaged in one of the learned professions: A lawyer is a professional person.
5. Following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime: a professional golfer.
We always assumed we were professional, after all we do try our best to ensure no one dies. So we were glad to see that it seems that we are professional after all, according to numbers 1-3!
So in a nutshell, we agree with your sentiment, but your definition and therefore whole impetus diverges from ours.
As for whats gets up our nose?, Blandness. put some pics up, some info about you and maybe, just maybe your location!
We understand the need of people not to put face pics, we ourselves do not show them. But why not show a non face pic, like ours that at least let's the other person know a little about your physical stature?
Once you have done that fill in your info, for example. if you are a male in birmingham with med build and 5 foot 8 height wny hide it? Are you really concerned you are the only person in the world that meets that description?
In short... be open and stop playing games.
In short what puts me off is an empty profile, no face pic attached to a message and pictures of people having sex with others in the public photos.
If you cant even be bothered to attempt to fill in a simple tick box profile and write an introduction to yourself, then IMO you are not looking for anything in particular and just an opportunist.
If no pic attached to a private message, I will not waste my time messaging you back and forth, only to find out later that there is no attraction; this also makes me feel like they have something to hide.
Sex in public photos is just my personal off put, I would just like to talk to a person, not a penis or vagina. :-P
Its like trying to have a normal convo with someone, whilst they are mid performance with someone else.......let me ask to see your sexual private pics if I choose to.
It doesnt impress me to see that you can have sex or have genitals, I'm kinda assuming thats a given lol
Pam xx
P.s. No sleight on anyone who does any of the above, just dont bother messaging me! ;-)
As far as profiles go... in no particular order, these are some of the things that make me think "maybe not":
* Profile text that is stating the obvious and remains at that, ie. bland text with no originality. Also common profile memes, like "no pain or watersports", "no timewasters" and the already mentioned "professionals" and "NO SINGLE MEN".
* Empty profiles of winkers.
* Profiles that evidently haven't been updated for many years.
* Mentions of "discreet" anything - a usual indication of cheating or paranoia. A strategical dash on the relationship status field has a similar effect.
* Heavy or exclusive mentions of "naughty fun", "uncomplicated fun", "fun and frolics" or other phrases to that effect.
* Tight close-ups of body parts, especially when there are no pictures showing general body-type, face, or anything else.
* Cumshots, unless there's a narrative to go with the picture. Let-it-all-hang-out action pics, like above I think these are best kept in private folders dunno But stylized action pics I do love, and there's such a fine line between the two lol
* Too much lingerie, except on profiles of CDs/TVs.
* Couples that look for bisexual women exclusively, men that look for women exclusively.
Love a good rant, me!
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Professionals, yes it puts us off, people with a degree or BA, Queens Commission or other qualifications that put them into the Professional category are, to be honest, a little over our social standing, we are a simple couple, not very scholared and down to earth in our ways and chat, we don't know anything about fine wines and rarely eat the finest foods, we don't go to the theatre or opera, enjoy trance not classical music, now I know that is labelling people to the Nth degree but most Professional people, do enjoy these things.

What you rally mean is you''re intimidated by those you consider above your 'social standing' , bit of a snobbish point of view is that.
We enjoy quality food and wine, we enjoy the theatre, not so much opera and take in all sorts of music from 'trance to classical' but we don't come with any tag such as 'professional' and yes you are labelling people but it's more that your comments speak more of your own insecurities rather than those you seek to label.
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Reading back it makes us wonder how we ever get a meet.

I can sort of understand that particular point of view
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ABSOLUTELY as I said we are not the kind of people for them, they are way above our social standing and capacity both in what they enjoy socially and what they would enjoy discussing, I have no illusions about my education standards or abilities and am honest enough to admit it.
They have already felt the need to tell me about it in thier profile so obviously and quite rightly this "standing, knowledge and achievment is important to them so I should and do respect that by avoiding them.
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ABSOLUTELY as I said we are not the kind of people for them, they are way above our social standing and capacity both in what they enjoy socially and what they would enjoy discussing, I have no illusions about my education standards or abilities and am honest enough to admit it.

You might be missing out. I went to a standard comprehensive school and left with average results. I want to college and did a trade based course. One of the best people i've ever met on swinging sites was a multi millionaire, very high up lawyer who was educated at private school, occasionally socialised with royals and is basically a proper old money posh totty type wink - and we get on fantastically, chatting about a wide range of subjects with very little attention paid to any financial, social, educational or other differences between us.
I've met with people of a similar background to mine who i could happy beat senseless with a cricket bat lol
This educated, not educated debate is one of the reasons I have always liked clubs. Their standard fluffy white towels and jaquzzi bubbles are such a leveller that people hardly ask what the other does for a living nor whether they have a degree in quantum physics from Harvard. It's just sex. Nothing more than a base physical attraction.
It's rather more complicated, of course, if you are one who is more turned on by cerebral gymnastics to gurn your loins. Then, being able to have a civilised conversation about something interesting, to all parts involved, is more central to the deal. Education can be important in this or not depending on what is being looked for; someone to make you laugh, a good story teller, an experienced traveller with worldly knowledge, a subject specialist who knows their stuff? Etc... Like the Meatball just wrote, some folk can have brilliantly interesting conversation skills from all kinds of backgrounds and all levels of education. Snobbery can also come from all levels of education and backgrounds.
I suppose it is all down to perspective and what someone is looking for at any given moment in time, what they want from this and how they usually look for their desires in order to fulfill them.
Personally, I don't rate SHrep, although I find it interesting. There is the who has verified whom; which would tell me lots about who I think the people are, where they've been and whether I'd/we'd like to be involved in that little bed notching claim. Same for the groups they've chosen to join and the adverts posted. Pictures tell me lots about what I think the person is like too, as do their posts in the forums or their banter in the chat rooms. Yes, the way someone posts in here can be deal breaker for us or a king maker where we wouldn't normally have looked.
kiss LG. x
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Snobbery can also come from all levels of education and backgrounds.
Pictures tell me lots about what I think the person is like too, as do their posts in the forums or their banter in the chat rooms. Yes, the way someone posts in here can be deal breaker for us or a king maker where we wouldn't normally have looked.
kiss LG. x

I do find that there is more negativity towards 'education' & ' prefessionals' from people who don't consider themselves in that group than the other way round. I am what you might call a 'highly educated professional'. But one thing that I have learned is that book-learning is bugger all to do with real life and I am nowhere near as clever as some 'uneducated' people I have met. But I have been told that people have felt intimidated - well, get me on a bed and go for my clit and you will see just irrelavent that is. biggrin I certainly don't reject sexual partners on the basis of their CV. And people from any 'level' can be ignorant and unpleasant to be with.
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Snobbery can also come from all levels of education and backgrounds.
Pictures tell me lots about what I think the person is like too, as do their posts in the forums or their banter in the chat rooms. Yes, the way someone posts in here can be deal breaker for us or a king maker where we wouldn't normally have looked.
kiss LG. x

I do find that there is more negativity towards 'education' & ' prefessionals' from people who don't consider themselves in that group than the other way round. I am what you might call a 'highly educated professional'. But one thing that I have learned is that book-learning is bugger all to do with real life and I am nowhere near as clever as some 'uneducated' people I have met. But I have been told that people have felt intimidated - well, get me on a bed and go for my clit and you will see just irrelavent that is. biggrin I certainly don't reject sexual partners on the basis of their CV. And people from any 'level' can be ignorant and unpleasant to be with.
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Completely agree Foxy. smile Any level of person can be either fabulous or not and this isn't always linked to CV.
Again, it's down to how people see others and how they form their views of what is or isn't interesting to them.
Regarding my comment about forums etc, I don't mind so much about spelling and grammar as the sentiment in what is written. Some people just aren't my kind of people. I guess that's what the Original Post was about, some things just don't float people's boat.
You only have to watch something like 'Take Me Out' on the telly to realise the complicated nature of attraction and what turns someone off can be something another may find trivial, still it's as valid to that particular person who has that as a turn off.
It's what makes people so darn interesting.
kiss LG. x
it puts me off when the husband of the couple does the typing ie the forum posts.. they always sound so dull and boring.. and I'm sure the wife is pretty amazing..
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it puts me off when the husband of the couple does the typing ie the forum posts.. they always sound so dull and boring.. and I'm sure the wife is pretty amazing..
wink

Hmmm that'll make you popular with the couples then :lol2: Would you care to elucidate?
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it puts me off when the husband of the couple does the typing ie the forum posts.. they always sound so dull and boring.. and I'm sure the wife is pretty amazing..
wink

the problem with that is, if the only thing that makes a couple interesting is the female posting then you single guys are a bit buggered, as you have nothing to fall back on
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